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Start your day with classical music

Tom McKinney presents Radio 3’s Breakfast show live from Salford. With birdsong, Bach Before 7 and the best in classical music. You can contact the show by emailing 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.

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Music Played

  • Franz Doppler

    Bird in the woods

    Performer: Claudi Arimany. Ensemble: Barcino Horn Quartet.
    • Doppler Complete Flute Music vol.6.
    • CAPRICCIO.

  • Mel Bonis

    Sarabande

    Conductor: Joseph Bastian. Orchestra: WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne.
    • Bonis: Orchestral Works.
    • CPO.
    • 12.

  • Philip Glass

    Violin Concerto no.1 (2nd mvt)

    Music Arranger: Amy Dickson. Performer: Amy Dickson. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Mikel Toms.
    • Amy Dickson. Glass Tavener Nyman.
    • RCA Red Seal.
    • 2.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Violin Sonata No 3, BWV 1005 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Renaud Capuçon.
    • J.S. Bach: Sonatas & Partitas.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 25.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Legend in F major, Op 59 No 8

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer.
    • ELOQUENCE.

  • Scott Joplin

    Solace (A Mexican Serenade)

    Performer: Cécile Licad.
    • Joplin: King of Ragtime - Anthology of American Piano Music, Vol. 6.
    • Danacord Records.
    • 5.

  • Pietro Locatelli

    Introduttione teatrale in B-flat major

    Performer: Fabio Biondi. Ensemble: Europa Galante.
    • Naive.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    String Symphony No 6 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Munich Radio Orchestra. Conductor: Henry Raudales.
    • Felix Mendelssohn: The Complete String Symphonies.
    • BR-Klassik.
    • 602.

  • Fritz Kreisler

    Liebesfreud' - old Viennese dance no.1

    Performer: Jack Liebeck. Performer: Katya Apekisheva.
    • Hyperion.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Violin Concerto No 1 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Vilde Frang. Ensemble: Arcangelo. Conductor: Jonathan Cohen.
    • Warner.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Sarabande (Suite No 4 in D minor)

    Orchestra: Insula Orchestra. Conductor: Laurence Equilbey.
    • Musiques de cinéma - Handel: Sarabande (From "Barry Lyndon").
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.

  • Malcolm Arnold

    Concerto for two pianos, three hands, Op.104 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: David Nettle. Performer: Richard Markham. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • Malcolm Arnold: Symphony No. 2 etc: Vernon Handley.
    • Conifer.
    • 3.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Trumpet Concerto in E flat major (1st mvt)

    Performer: Simon Höfele. Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Duncan Ward.
    • Simon Hofele - Standards.
    • BERLIN CLASSICS.
    • 1.

  • Pyotr Tchaikovsky

    Suite no.2 in C major Op.53 (Valse)

    Orchestra: Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • The Stuttgart Recordings.
    • CapriccioNR.
    • 602.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Pastourelle

    Performer: Pascal Rogé.
    • Poulenc Les Soirees De Nazelles 3 Mouvments Perpetuels 3 Novlettes 9 Improvisati.
    • Decca.

  • Michael Daugherty

    Blue Electra (I. Courage)

    Performer: Anne Akiko Meyers. Orchestra: Albany Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: David Alan Miller.
    • Michael Daugherty: Blue Electra, Last Dance at the Surf & To the New World.
    • Naxos Music UK Ltd.
    • 1.

  • Giacomo Puccini

    O mio babbino caro (Gianni Schicchi)

    Singer: Lesley Garrett. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Greenwood.
    • Diva! Lesley Garrett - A Soprano at the Movies.
    • Silva Screen.
    • 7.

  • Josef Myslivecek

    Symphony in G major

    Ensemble: Concerto Köln. Conductor: Werner Ehrhardt.
    • ARCHIV.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    String Quartet in F Major, Op.18 No. 1: IV. Allegro

    Ensemble: Dover Quartet.
    • Beethoven: Complete String Quartets, Vol. 1.
    • Cedille.
    • 104.

  • Michael Nyman

    The Heart Asks Pleasure First (Theme from The Piano)

    Performer: Gautier Capuçon. Performer: Jérôme Ducros. Orchestra: Paris Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Adrien Perruchon.
    • Emotions.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 16.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto in E major 'Spring'

    Performer: Adrian Chandler. Ensemble: La Serenissima.
    • Avie.

  • Alexander Borodin

    Symphony No 2 in B minor (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Warner Classics.

  • Franz Liszt

    Transcendental Studies, No 5 "Will-o-the-Wisp"

    Performer: Alim Beisembayev.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.

  • Helena Munktell

    Le lac de Siljan (from Dalsvit - Suite dalecarlienne)

    Orchestra: Gävle symfoniorkester. Conductor: Tobias Ringborg.
    • Sterling.

  • Aaron Copland

    Rodeo: Hoe-down

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Aaron Copland.
    • SONY.

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